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Peer Review Process
The journal employs a peer-review mechanism where each submitted article should be anonymously reviewed by expert peers appointed by the editor. The peer review process is through the double-blind review, meaning two peers will review each article. Articles published in this journal could be in the form of original articles and invited articles (brief reports, case reports, opinion articles, commentaries, editorials, and correspondence).
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. All articles published Open Access will be immediately and permanently free for everyone to read and download. We are continuously working with our author communities to select the best choice of license options,
- Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA).
Publication Flow
Submitted articles on Kesmas: Jurnal Kesehatan Masyarakat Nasional (National Public Health Journal) should be in the form of the full article following the author guidelines and manuscript template. The authors should select the document type and discipline when submitting their articles. The submitted articles will undergo initial screening to examine the existence of elements of plagiarism by using the iThenticate program, with a maximum similarity by 20%, to check whether the articles have already following the author guidelines, if the articles have more than 20% similarity check and not following the author guidelines, it will be automatically rejected.
After the articles pass the initial screening, it will undergo the following steps:
- The handling editor will do the quality checking of the articles.
- If the handling editor rejects the articles, the authors will get the rejected notification via email. If the handling editor accepts the articles, they will select the reviewers for the double-blind review process.
- If the two selected reviewers reject the articles, they will be automatically rejected. However, if only one reviewer rejects, the handling editor will select another reviewer candidate.
- If both of the reviewers accept, the authors will have to revise their articles based on the comments or suggestions from the reviewers.
- The handling editor will check the authors' revision and decide whether the article should go through the second or third review process.
The decision to accept the manuscript will be made by the Editor-in-chief. Once the articles are titled “accepted,” the authors will have to pay the article processing charge (APC) and proofreading service fee, and the letter of acceptance (LoA) will be issued.
The final step will be the proofreading service, copy-editing (checking the grammar, structure of the articles, the references, etc.), and layout process. If there are comments or questions in this step, the authors should revise the manuscript. Once there are no longer notes, the Secretariat will send the dummy of the article and proof approval letter to have their final check before publishing the articles. The dummy will also be sent to the editors to be checked. Once the articles are published, the authors cannot revise anything. The estimated time from article submission until publication is 60-90 days.
Authorship and Plagiarism
Authorship of articles should be limited to those who have contributed sufficiently to take public responsibility for the contents. These contributions include (a) conception and design, analysis and interpretation of data, or both; (b) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; (c) final approval of the version to be published; and (d) agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work by ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved. Submission to the Kesmas: Jurnal Kesehatan Masyarakat Nasional (National Public Health Journal) is interpreted by the journal to mean that all the listed authors have agreed with all of the articles content. The corresponding (submitting) author is responsible for having ensured that this agreement has been reached, and for managing all communication between the journal and co-authors before and after publication. Any requests for changes to the author list after submission, such as a change in the order of the authors, or the deletion or addition of authors needs to be accompanied by a letter signed by all original authors. The letter should be scanned and e-mailed to jurnalkesmas.ui@gmail.com by the submitting author. The Kesmas: Jurnal Kesehatan Masyarakat Nasional (National Public Health Journal) editors assume that on multi-group collaborations, one member of each collaboration, usually the most senior member of each submitting group has accepted responsibility for the contributions to the manuscript from their team.
It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to ensure that:
- The article is an original work and does not involve fraud, fabrication, or plagiarism.
- The article has not been published previously and is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. If accepted by the Kesmas: Jurnal Kesehatan Masyarakat Nasional (National Public Health Journal), the article will not be submitted for publication to any other journal.
- The article contains no defamatory or unlawful statements and does not contain any materials that infringe upon individual privacy, proprietary rights, or any statutory copyright.
- They have written permission from owners for any excerpts from copyrighted works that are included and have credited the sources from where they were obtained.
- All authors have made significant contributions to the study including the conception and design of the article, the analysis of the data, and the writing of the manuscript.
- All authors have reviewed the manuscript, take responsibility for its content and approve its publication.
- All authors are aware of and agree to the terms of this publishing agreement.
